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Is Texting and Driving Safe? Due to years and years of technological advancements, Americans find it easier than ever to connect with their friends and family on a global scale. Nowadays, it is common to see someone call and or text while driving. Even though it is a dangerous habit many neglect about the real life consequences it can bring leading it to a life-threating accident. According to Huffington Post, 1 in 4 Americans are killed daily from vehicle accidents that involve texting and…

“In a split second you could ruin your future, injure or kill others, and tear a hole in the hearts of everyone who loves you,” Sharon Heit said (Source One). Sharon Heit was the mother of a son that ended his life early in a car accident from a fatal text message. If Although a cell phone is a thing most people use in their daily lives, there is a time and place where cellphones is appropriate. People should stop using cell phones while driving because it is a distraction and causes accidents.…

There were many difficult processes that a person had to master during their lifetime, but some had different opinions on which activity was the hardest for them. I found that the most challenging task that I had to accomplish up to this point of my life was learning to drive. Learning how to drive was the most difficult process for me because of the external and internal distractions that I had to face when I began taking lessons. The external disturbances were factors that disrupted my…

Once said by a famous person, “ It’s not about how robust of a driver a person is. It’s about the five seconds, a person take their eyes off the road. Don’t risk it.” This means no matter if a person is an expert in driving the five seconds they have their eyes on their phone is what matters. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) an agency of the executive branch of the U.S. government, part of the department of transportation getting the viewers on how texting and driving is…

30,000 Americans are killed on the road every year due to texting while driving and other distractions. Some deaths are pedestrians and most are drivers. Due to this problem, engineers and scientists have been trying to find a way to prevent these accidents, therefore they came up with an idea of a self-driving car. Engineers are building the car so that you don't need to drive the car at all. Since that is happening people are expecting some entertainment so the car will have tv, video…

Here we go again, it has started to sprinkle and now we can’t run the mile outside because of the DIRT TRACK. I guess we have to run it in the hot and smelly building. I also want to do track but my friends and I don’t have cars and we don’t have a ride to the track either. For gym and track students they often complain about having a dirt track. Most schools in Montana don’t have dirt tracks, but Havre High School does. For this reason HHS students have to practice and have meets at the middle…

Most people drive in their everyday lives , with the increasing growth of technology it has become more dangerous. The hands-free law has not done anything to decrease deaths or injuries, it has only made people think it has. It will not change the number of accidents on the road caused by cellphones, and wont affect the distractions of the driver. In the article "Hands Free Law wont solve the problem" it talks about the dangers of talking on a cellphone, but that the Hands-Free law will not…

4 Reasons It’s Not Okay to Let Others Drive Your Vehicle As Americans, we love vehicles. We love cars, trucks, and SUVs. Our vehicles are a part of our liberty and the pursuit of happiness; they get us where we need to be when we need to be there. Additionally, our vehicles, new or used, were purchased with our hard earned money. They are of significant value, whatever way you look at it. As such, you shouldn’t be so carefree about allowing others to drive your vehicles. You Could Be…

Texting allows people to text someone without interrupting them, but also it is useful for communicating with others. Texting also has many benefits like being sneaky or quickly updating someone about something. If someone is at a party and wants to leave, they can just text someone instead of someone hearing them. Texting decreases the risk of someone hearing a phone call and hearing someone say that they want to leave or that they are not enjoying it. It is much easier to just text someone…

Turkle concludes her novel with the topic of nostalgia and how despite technology’s penetration into our daily lives, people, teenagers included, still tend to think back wistfully to days prior to the Internet and Smartphones. For many teenagers, texting, IMing and Skyping bring about mixed emotions. Yes, these technologies make it easier to contact their friends; they are faster and more efficient, especially when trying to cross long distances. However, they also “talk wistfully about letters…